" Think good. Do good. Be good.
That's how thy life be should "
('Spring Leaves' by KMG)
Last week, it was a topic of negative (undesirable) traits - - - -tension and worry. Some tips were no doubt offered for a fair trial. However, what greater counsel and instruction to cure human ailments, can we expect than that from the Geetaacharya Himself, who revealed in the Bhagavad Geeta, the Divine Message to foster the right way of living, which alone can tune one's mind to overcome negative tendencies that bring about grief. For anyone to 'de-stress', a philosophical view of life is inevitable. Or else, 'distress' alone !Geeta Sastra is a panacea for all human ills, ailments, temptations, and illusions.
That's how thy life be should "
('Spring Leaves' by KMG)
Last week, it was a topic of negative (undesirable) traits - - - -tension and worry. Some tips were no doubt offered for a fair trial. However, what greater counsel and instruction to cure human ailments, can we expect than that from the Geetaacharya Himself, who revealed in the Bhagavad Geeta, the Divine Message to foster the right way of living, which alone can tune one's mind to overcome negative tendencies that bring about grief. For anyone to 'de-stress', a philosophical view of life is inevitable. Or else, 'distress' alone !Geeta Sastra is a panacea for all human ills, ailments, temptations, and illusions.
Below are given three passages from Geeta (from the poetic translation "Song Celestial" by Sir Edwin Arnold), which relate how and why humans stoop to the evil path, ending up in worry and grief. If only they can muster enuf courage to avoid that course, then, they can take to the righteous path, leading to peace and happiness.
Note the beauty of the metaphor, and the aptness of the idioms, and the forcible, eloquent, assertive language of the scripture, with fitting and appro-priate similies, to drive home the enunciations presented. The words have the stamp of Authority, and reveal truths replete with wisdom. Following are the three passages:
1. "- - - By what force doth man
Go to his ill, unwilling as if one
Pushed him that evil path ?
Kama it is, passion it is ! born of the darkness
Which pusheth him. Mighty of appetite,
Sinful and strong is this ! -- man's enemy.
As smoke blots the white fire, as clinging rust
Mars the bright mirror, as the womb surrounds
The babe unborn, so is the world of things
Foiled, soiled, enclosed in this desire of flesh.
The wise fall caught in it; the unresting foe
It is of wisdom, wearing countless forms,
Fair but deceitful, subtle as a flame.
Sense, mind, and reason - - these, O Kunti's Son !
Are booty for it ; in its play with these,
It maddens man, beguiling, blinding him."
2. "- - - - That man alone is wise
Who keeps the mastery of himself ! If one
Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs
Attraction ; from attraction grows desire,
Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds
Recklessness ; then the memory - all betrayed -
Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind,
Till purpose, mind and man, are all undone.
But, if one deals with the objects of the sense,
Not loving and not hating, making them
Serve his free soul, which rests serenely Lord,
Lo ! such a man comes to tranquility ;
And out of that tranquility shall rise
The ending and healing of his earthly pains,
Since the will governed sets the soul at peace -- "
3. " - - The doors of Hell
Are three-fold, whereby men to ruin pass --
The door of Lust, the door of Wrath, the door
Of Avarice. Let a man shun these three !
He who shall turn aside from entering
All those three gates of Narak, wendeth straight
To find his peace, and comes to Swarga's gate.. "
1. "- - - By what force doth man
Go to his ill, unwilling as if one
Pushed him that evil path ?
Kama it is, passion it is ! born of the darkness
Which pusheth him. Mighty of appetite,
Sinful and strong is this ! -- man's enemy.
As smoke blots the white fire, as clinging rust
Mars the bright mirror, as the womb surrounds
The babe unborn, so is the world of things
Foiled, soiled, enclosed in this desire of flesh.
The wise fall caught in it; the unresting foe
It is of wisdom, wearing countless forms,
Fair but deceitful, subtle as a flame.
Sense, mind, and reason - - these, O Kunti's Son !
Are booty for it ; in its play with these,
It maddens man, beguiling, blinding him."
2. "- - - - That man alone is wise
Who keeps the mastery of himself ! If one
Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs
Attraction ; from attraction grows desire,
Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds
Recklessness ; then the memory - all betrayed -
Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind,
Till purpose, mind and man, are all undone.
But, if one deals with the objects of the sense,
Not loving and not hating, making them
Serve his free soul, which rests serenely Lord,
Lo ! such a man comes to tranquility ;
And out of that tranquility shall rise
The ending and healing of his earthly pains,
Since the will governed sets the soul at peace -- "
3. " - - The doors of Hell
Are three-fold, whereby men to ruin pass --
The door of Lust, the door of Wrath, the door
Of Avarice. Let a man shun these three !
He who shall turn aside from entering
All those three gates of Narak, wendeth straight
To find his peace, and comes to Swarga's gate.. "
That is the assurance that the Lord is giving us. Why not repose implicit Faith in Him and His Teachings, and, lead a life of undisturbed peace and happiness, devoid of worry ?
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